Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Time to try something new, it's pretty incredible!

I think is my year of learning new things! It might be spurred on by the wonderful design team I'm working with for The Splendid Sampler™ project... but whatever happened, I'm trying all kinds of things! Let's take a look at this one, which I can say I'm pretty darn excited about!

This is the new Aurifil 80wt thread. It's much finer than 50wt, which is the 'go to' wt that I use for piecing, machine applique, my hand applique, and machine quilting.

I've been waiting since I first heard about it to share!! I did product testing for them and it's DIVINE!

Let me tell you a bit more about it

Being thinner it means it's wonderful for hand applique as the thread will just disappear into the fabric beautifully. I hand appliqued my 'Top of the Hill' Splendid sampler block ..

here is a close up.

I am seriously considering doing a scrappy quilt of these blocks as a take along project!

The other way I tried it is for straight stitch machine fusible applique. This is a raw edge technique. With the Splendid Sampler being 6" blocks there often small pieces that I'd rather not blanket stitch.

For the Flip Flops, I decided to do the entire block as straight stitch right along the edge. Most of the block is done with 50wt, but I did the flower with 80wt. Let's take a closer look...

For this test I kept the stitch length the same for both the 50wt and 80wt.

The flower is fussy cut so it's got a lot of curves. Next time I will change the stitch length to be shorter. My Babylock Crescendo is so easy to use I can quickly change to something smaller for just that shape.

I REALLY love how it blends in nicely and is not a feature.

I plan to use it on my Summerfield kit.. you know that guilty indulgence project I recently added to my life.. that one... hello beautiful... isn't it gorgeous!

I've been looking at it to decide WHICH block to do first.. and I think I've decided on the Sunflowers as it's just the most amazing block! This quilt is a reproduction/variation of one in the Virginia Quilt Museum.

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Time to try something new, it's pretty incredible!

I think is my year of learning new things! It might be spurred on by the wonderful design team I'm working with for The Splendid Sampler™ project... but whatever happened, I'm trying all kinds of things! Let's take a look at this one, which I can say I'm pretty darn excited about!

This is the new Aurifil 80wt thread. It's much finer than 50wt, which is the 'go to' wt that I use for piecing, machine applique, my hand applique, and machine quilting.

I've been waiting since I first heard about it to share!! I did product testing for them and it's DIVINE!

Let me tell you a bit more about it

Being thinner it means it's wonderful for hand applique as the thread will just disappear into the fabric beautifully. I hand appliqued my 'Top of the Hill' Splendid sampler block ..

here is a close up.

I am seriously considering doing a scrappy quilt of these blocks as a take along project!

The other way I tried it is for straight stitch machine fusible applique. This is a raw edge technique. With the Splendid Sampler being 6" blocks there often small pieces that I'd rather not blanket stitch.

For the Flip Flops, I decided to do the entire block as straight stitch right along the edge. Most of the block is done with 50wt, but I did the flower with 80wt. Let's take a closer look...

For this test I kept the stitch length the same for both the 50wt and 80wt.

The flower is fussy cut so it's got a lot of curves. Next time I will change the stitch length to be shorter. My Babylock Crescendo is so easy to use I can quickly change to something smaller for just that shape.

I REALLY love how it blends in nicely and is not a feature.

I plan to use it on my Summerfield kit.. you know that guilty indulgence project I recently added to my life.. that one... hello beautiful... isn't it gorgeous!

I've been looking at it to decide WHICH block to do first.. and I think I've decided on the Sunflowers as it's just the most amazing block! This quilt is a reproduction/variation of one in the Virginia Quilt Museum.